Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-03-26
AMUSEMENT WORLD.
A Weekly Summary OF FOOtlight
Sparks and Sporting Echoes OF
General Interest.
Something About Roland Reed-Clara
Morris In "Miss Mutton"
Last Night.
Clara Wisdom's Growing Popularity
Actors and Actresses-SpOrt-
ing Notes for the Boys.
miss MUTTON. ="

MISS MUDTON.
In the selection of "Miss Mutton" for
her favorite piece, Clara Morris exhibits
a taste which must always be corrobor-
ated by her audience. With none of the
terrors of "L'Article Az" and with even
more strength and smoothness, the play
given last evening leaves no room for
criticism or complaint on the part of
either the audience or the players. Be-
fore the large audience of last evening,
Miss Morris appeared to much greater
advantage than on the previous evening,
and the honors she had won before did
much to keep the hearts of those present
warm toward the artist. In "Miss Null
ton" the star has an opportunity to ex-
hibit her powers in handling the more
quiet emotions, and her success in this
was quite as great surprise to the audi
ence as was her exhibition of the terrible
in the other performance.
Mr.. Miller had a better opportunity as
De Latour than he had in the other role,
and his handsome figure, graceful bear
ing and fine articulation were shown OIL
to better advantage than ever. He IS a
good actor, and as leading man, he
shares many OF the honors with the star
herself. The other parts were we'll filled,
making up performance entirely enter
tanning and delightful.
Miss Morris appears this afternoon tor
the last time, and this evening her COM
pany presents Engaged"
Clara Morris, with fine, strong COM
pany, to light house in 'L'Article A."
somewhat improved in "Miss Mutton,
yet if Langtry, Fortescue, Patti, etc.,
came here standing room would be at a
premium. But Clara is one of our Amer
lean girls, and the others English" you
know. Yet Miss Morris can feel fattered
in knowing that her audiences were our
best society people, the cren1e-lG-crene
of the Saints and Sinners in Zion.
Roland Reed, with a fine dramatic
company, played to poor business on the
21st, 22d and 23d. Trash like "Uncle
Toms Cabin" can draw 81 900 in two
performances and I a matinee, but an
artist like Reed hardly makes expenses.
He is a graduate of the Stuart Robson
school, and in his youth played minor
parts at the Arch Street Theatre, Phila-
delphia, at the same time Robson was
the comedian at the said place.
Roland Reed says there are three
in a woman's life: AS a baby she is
logged, as a miss she is Rugged, and as a
married woman she is humbugged.
Lewis Morrison, the popular actor, well
known in this city, was converted into an
Elk last Sunday, at San Francisco, Cal.
Sir Arthur Sullivan works from noon to
daylight the next morning when compos-
ing comic operas.
Abbey is certainly the present prince Of
American managers. With Patti and
Bernhardt, in three months, he is ahead
5000, 900, and before their engagements
close he will have realized close on to
100000.
A King of Spain, fancying that he had
a taste for music, liked to take part in
Baccherini's quartets; but he never
could succeed in keeping time. One day,
when he was three or four bars behind
hand, the other performers took fright at
the confusion occasioned by the royal
bow, and were about to wait for him.
Fiddle away" cried the enthusiastic
monarch, II shall very soon get up to
you"
Clara Wisdom, who will soon be here
with the Carlton Opera Company, will
make a very narrow escape-if escape
she does-from becoming great actress
if she keeps on improving as she has in
the past three years. In private life she
is young lady of unusual beauty and
refinement. Her Madam de Maintenon,
in "Nanon," showed her magnificent
stature and commanding presence. Not
many women would so cheerfully sacri-
flee such beauty and dignity as she does
in Katisha and the Princess, in Ger
mimic" for the sake of art.
A good story is told of the 3-year-old
daughter of Henry E. Abbey, the daring
theatrical manager. While in England,
Mr.. Abbey rented nobleman's estate,
and one day his Lordship came to dine
with them. The little girl heard him con-
stantly called "my Lord" by the SER
wants, and she listened wonderingly to a
form of address she had never heard ex-
cept in connection with her prayers.
After the nobleman had kissed her, she
ran to her father, exclaiming: ooh,
papa! God kissed met"
The actors in Miss Fortencue's COM
pany are feelings rather amusing story
about the lady's sister, who is travelling
with the organization. When they were
playing recently in Buffalo, the younger
Miss Fortesque came on Wednesday
morning to see the manager, and ex-
pressed desire to run down that after
noon with her mother and visit Niagara
Falls. The manager was was afraid
some unforeseen delay might OCCUR to
prevent the lady's return in time for the
evenings performance. and he said: cit
would be quite useless for you to go to-
day. The falls are not visible on We'd
nesdays."
'Indeedl And why not?"
"They always turn the water off on
Wednesdays"
"How extraordinary" responded Miss
Fortescue, and went away quite satisfied
with the explanation.
The crusade against high hats in
theatres in Washington, D. c., received
an impetus during the recent Bernhardt
engagement in that city. Two-thirds of
the fashionable women in the boxes and
orchestra appeared bareheaded during
the last of the engagement at the Ma
tional Theatre. 1t is possible that the
freak of two convivial youths in forcibly
removing some of the high hat obstruc-
tons to their view of the stage in a cheap
theatre at the Capital had its influence
In inducing the fashionables to uncover.
These larky youths fished for the OBJ
jectionable head gear with fish poles.
They entered the theatre with jointed
rods and had lifted four OF the towering
distractions before they were taken in
hand and elected from the theatre. Our
ladies in this city never wear high hats.
Sporting Notes.
The international champion challenge
cup Richard K. Fox is having manu-
facturqd IN raDrocapt tho uipOlo-co,,1I